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RE: intro and question
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lugnet.robotics
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Sun, 16 Jun 2002 19:31:42 GMT
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<rhempel@bmts.ANTISPAMcom>
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> So now I am considering purchasing either "Dave Baum's Definitive Guide to
> LEGO Mindstorms" to learn NQC or "Core LEGO MINDSTORMS Programming: Unleash
> the Power of the Java Platform" by Brian Bagnall to learn JAVA. I just
> ran a quick search and found this interesting article called
> "Ada/Mindstorms 3.0: A Computational Environment for Introductory Robotics
> and Programming" (found at
> http://www.faginfamily.net/barry/Papers/IEEERA.htm). In this article the
> author advises that NQC is difficult for the novice programmer to learn and
> use.
Which is funny, because I read the webpage and it turns out you need
to download 23MB of stuff and it ends up installing NQC on your system...
> So now I am concerned about going the NQC route. Maybe I should try this
> Ada/Mindstorms software. Any thoughts? Also what is the relationship
> between RcxCC and NQC? Thanks.
If you're a beginning programmer, I'd go with NQC for the simple reason
that there are lots of people on Lugnet to turn to for help. I'd also buy
Dave's "Definitive Guide" because he has some examples of Lego code right
next to the equivalent NQC. I just re-read that book the other night :-)
If you're feeling adventurous, you can try my pbForth language.
Cheers, Ralph Hempel
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| (...) Forth isn't by any stretch of the imagination a good language to learn as your *first* language - although it *is* pretty cool for writing embedded system software on teeny-tiny processors once you grok the whole programming thing. ---...--- (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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